[libreoffice-website] Re: Forums Proposal

Hi Florian and Charles,

Le 2012-10-07 09:19, Jonathan Aquilina a écrit :
> I second not biting off more than we can chew
> On Oct 7, 2012 2:08 PM, "Charles-H. Schulz"<
> charles.schulz@documentfoundation.org>  wrote:
>
> > At the risk of repeating myself, and to support Florian's views: we are
> > talking about a forum for users, not a migration, even a partial one, to
> > forums instead of mailing lists fro contributors. That was never discussed
> > and so far I think we are only at the stage of opening something... Let's
> > not try to eat something bigger than we can chew...
> >
> > (thank you for taking care of all this!)
> >
> > Charles.

Sadly, the proposal was put to the discussion list on September 27th and 
also posts went to all of the mentioned mailing lists on the same day 
... ahem ... 10 days ago!

IHO, we are not biting more than we can chew, but offering an 
opportunity for some mailing lists the medium of a forums, which, has 
been voiced in some mailing lists. There is nothing wrong with having a 
healthy discussion on this topic. Quite frankly if a mailing list 
decides to move to a forums, they would surely have people to devote to 
their own moderation and this would only be done by consensus. Resources 
would have very little impact on the user forums section. If anything, 
it would allow for a visual bridge for interested users to move to the 
contributor lists.

So, if you are worried about "eating bigger than we can chew", the offer 
to open up forums was given, 5 co-coordinators offered their help, met 
and organized a proposal, made the process transparent to the lists. If 
we had thought that our proposal could not have been met our needs or 
was unmanageable, then we would have not offered it. We had quite long 
and lively discussions when we were forming our proposal and argued as 
many ways that we could before offering it to the lists.

So, if there were limitations on what we were to offer from the BoD, 
there were no indications of this. The reminder that we were given were 
to make sure that everyone have their say in this, which is what is now 
happening.

I would say, now that the proposal has gone out, let them work 
themselves through and everyone who would have wanted a say in this will 
have said it. Whether a mailing list wishes to join, they would have to 
make ways to make the forums work with their moderators. This would be 
their decision.

Cheers,

Marc


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